Paul Keogan – Lighting Design

Born in Ireland, Paul studied drama at Trinity College Dublin and at Glasgow University. After graduating he worked as Production Manager for Project Arts Centre for three years before embarking on a freelance career as a set and lighting designer.

Paul has designed lighting for a number of production at the Abbey Theatre Dublin, including Heartbreak House, The Risen People, Drum Belly , Curse of the Starving Class, The Rivals, B for Baby, No Escape, Ages of the Moon, Marble, Lay Me Down Softly, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Woman and Scarecrow, School for Scandal, Homeland (also set design), The Electrocution of Children, Amazing Grace, Living Quarters, Making History, The Map Maker’s Sorrow, Cúirt an Mheán Oíche, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Bailegangáire, Down the Line, Eden, The Wild Duck, The Cherry Orchard, Portia Coughlan and Heavenly Bodies.

His lighting designs for dance include No Man’s Land and Firebird (English National Ballet); Hansel and Gretel (Royal Ballet); Sweat and Beautiful Tomorrow (ManDance); Macalla and Intimate Gold (Irish Modern Dance Theatre); SAMO (Blok & Steel, Netherlands) and Catalyst, a collaboration between Rex Levitates and The National Ballet of China in Beijing.

He designed The Wishing Well, an outdoor projection piece for Kilkenny Arts Festival 1999, and the lighting for the Irish Pavilion at the Architectural Biennale in Venice 2004 and 2006. Paul was the recipient of the Gerard Arnhold Bursary at Wexford Festival Opera 2006.